Chapter 165 - [Bonus ] Investigation (part 2)

Everyone tensed at Emery's question, this was as outrageous as Wu Jian's assumption about Duke Azikiwe.

"Yes," Binah's voice weighed like a ton without the antigravity in the room.

To say that, it weighed on the shoulders of everyone in the room, was not enough to maintain the minds that trembled with this information nor with the chaos that would ensue in the Diablo Empire if this information were to fall into the hands of the media.

"Who?" Emery questioned after closing his eyes for a few seconds, this information would surely hurt the Emperor's feelings, and he was already feeling anguished and worried about his alpha just imagining it.

"I don't know"

The silence became unbearably long after this break-in expectation, Mu Liang felt his system stir in his mind with a loud noise.

"What is the reason?" Emery inquired, leaving no chance for Mu Liang to inquire the reason for such a noise in his head to the system.

"How shall I know, I only received one mission from him... A mission worth a lot of money and an opportunity to be free..." Binah began to speak while he seemed to be delirious.

"What was the mission?" Emery asked, preventing her from trying to tangle with him.

"Taking the DNA and cosmic force of Emperor Ade" Binah said with a flat voice and perverted smile.

"How would you do that?" Emery asked, feeling an inexplicable fire of jealousy in his heart. An omega could sense the challenge of another omega, Binah's pheromones seemed to provoke Emery into a fight.

Well, Emery wasn't going to fall for it and kill her, but there was no way he wouldn't be angry at such boldness.

Who was he if not Kronos?

Ah, a mortal defying him so blatantly.

"How else? A bit of blood, a bit of semen, a bit of everything, you know if he marked me then... I don't doubt the Emperor could fuck me so badly, ah, you know, such a perfect Zerg..." Binah said with a huge smile, clearly a provocative attempt to get beaten up and lose consciousness.

"Mu Liang, name the names on the list, I'll ask them one by one, I want to see if she won't say anything," Emery said with a smile that wasn't a smile causing the people in the room to shiver.

"Ask her if she has any theories or thoughts about who asked for the mission. She is no rookie and seems to be a strong member of the organization, she may not know the name but can guess who is behind the request" Chen Qian said with some controlled calm, she was experienced in interrogation and in sifting through the possibilities.

Emery found an interesting approach, if it didn't work, he could rip out her soul and extract information with spiritual debugging... Which would be quite painful.

He looked around at the innocent mortals, wondering how traumatizing it would be if he did it in front of everyone like that, with complete indifference.

In the end, he just let Mu Liang ask, as he tried to control his foolish omega instinct of wanting to beat up that omega bastard.

Duke Azikiwe.

Empress Nehand.

Emperor Ehione.

Emperor Kayin.

Princess Nyashia.

Princess Anulika.

Madaki concubine. (Ehione's concubine)

Concubine Jang.

Chewe Azikiwe.

Naira Azikiwe (Chewe's younger sister).

Gyasi Azikiwe.

Mu Liang (he had to include himself as the Emperor's family).

Chad Azikiwe (Gyasi's second-eldest brother).

Liam Callahan  (Chad's beta/elf husband).

All the names on the list who were known, who had power, intimacy, and some sort of problem with the emperor taking Emery as empress were listed, but they all laughed and denied, but the list was getting shorter and that made Binah more nervous, she couldn't control herself because of the supposed poison in her body... It was no use trying to provoke the enemies, they seemed indifferent to her and kept interrogating her while they argued freely.

"Only Marshal Azikiwe remains, Lindani Azikiwe Emperor's uncle," Mu Liang said in a low tone, but that didn't lessen the weight of his words and oppression seemed to settle in the room.

Someone with strong military power who could join the Rebels and install insurrection and chaos in the Diablo Empire.

However, from Binah's silence, they seemed to be close to the truth.

"There is something moving inside her" Mu Liang's system said, receiving signals from something dark and dangerous in Binah's body.

Alessandra-066 was monitoring Binah's body and suppressing the system in the assassin's body, she felt something earlier when she talked about one of the Imperial Family's people being the crime mandate and even tried to stop that something but almost lost a painful amount of time her data being burned as if it were a powerful acid in the metal.

Because of that, Mu Liang felt a severe headache, which luckily was suppressed thanks to the items from the goddess Lan-Lan that helped Alessandra-066 to recover a little.

Emery, who was monitoring Binah's body with his divine powers also noticed something, but he knew well what that something was.

"A curse again..." he thought, using the power of his time to stop energy mixed between silver and black that seemed to have completely corroded Binah's system, leaving the assassin in a catatonic state.

Emery captured the curse again with his power, but the power of time didn't seem to have any effect on the AI ​​destroyed with this strange energy that made up this curse.

Which was a pity, since he couldn't make Binah go back to her previous state. He released a power into her soul, but as he imagined, her soul had also been affected by the curse. So, he made a new cube and placed the curse inside, this time he would study it without the Zerg diablos interfering in his affairs.

The systems that are wired into the users' brains, obviously anything that could hit the systems was something serious, but the systems are clearly superior AI; otherwise, they couldn't be in such a vital part of a species.

The attack was something new and too strong for this world to have produced.

Binah stopped talking and stared at a fixed point without moving, her head looked a little droopy, and she was weakly sitting up.

"What happened?" Chen Qian asked, noting Prince Mu's worried face.

"It seems that something was inside her and ended up destroying her system," Mu Liang said, still not knowing how to explain what happened, as neither he nor Alessandra-066 knew what that thing was that consumed Binah's system and ate some data of his system.

"This is impossible! The AI ​​can't be destroyed, that kind of vile attack can't exist..." Bae Dong said with a short laugh that was a little too shrill, showing amazement and fear so different from the most serious and indifferent personality of Tang-Kai Empire envoy.

Mu Liang was also surprised along with the others in the room, of course, they were more afraid than Prince Mu who lived most of his existence without a system in his head.

He didn't understand that this news was like an apocalypse falling on people's heads from the future.

Literally, a bomb ticking in their heads.

"It wasn't something that attacked the AI, but the AI ​​itself was made to self-destruct," Emery said, interrupting people's outburst of fear.

This AI was similar to the normal AIs that ordinary people could obtain, but there was something fundamental that allowed a curse to be coupled with the AI ​​being activated when some rule imposed by the curse was broken.

Saying the employer's name should be one of the triggers, but Emery couldn't deduce anything just yet, he was from a fundamentally different world from this universe, and he wasn't versed in creating AI.

He needed more time to study AI and be able to determine what the foundation of the curse is.

The question was: What would they do with this omega's body now?

They looked at Emery with a questioning look, it was definitely in his hands what they were going to do now.

"I think we should collect more evidence... Well, our evidence just passed away, even with the recording it might not be... No, it's likely not even enough to move an investigation against Marshal Azikiwe"

Emery said regretfully, Mu Liang couldn't help but agree with his friend, they were foreigners among the Zerg Diablos, their credibility in this kind of national affairs and with the imperial family wasn't very high.

Even if part of the family believed in them, the military could very well not believe them, and that would generate a great internal conflict.

"And the body?" Cedric Dermot asked with some concern. If they hid the assassin's body, the evidence they gathered could not be used, but there was a possibility that they would be framed as people who want to cause chaos in the government and be arrested later.

"Emery, let's give it to Gyasi…" Mu Liang tried to speak but was interrupted by Emery tersely.

"If we hand it over to General Gyasi… Mu Liang, he is a General, what do you think will happen if they find out that he is investigating Marshal Azikiwe based on our evidence and this dead body?" Emery asked, but Mu Liang didn't answer.

The silence was a very heavy answer being given many times today, but it seemed to be the right answer for everything that showed up today, the heavy feeling of having gotten into something they shouldn't have messed with.

Well, now that wasn't relevant anymore as they ended up getting into this big problem.

Was it too late to pretend not to know anything?

"And then?" Mu Liang said feeling distressed, they weren't professional investigators, and they had no idea how deep the political system and all the dirty things of the Diablo Empire was, they didn't even know the basics about the nobles and the powerful who weren't part of the nobility.

The military... A bitter laugh could bubble up at any moment from Bae Dong, they would be arrested investigating.

Terrorism, attacks on the retired emperor, mortal enemies (Angelic Zergs) emerging from the dark manhole of espionage and assassinations.... The military and the empire as a whole were too sensitive, outsiders who didn't dare venture out and put their finger in their face.